Intel's newly announced 'Light Peak' optical interconnect wasn't developed at Apple's instigation as has been claimed.
So says a mole cited by Cnet, and we're not at all surprised, for a number of reasons.
Intel has been working on various technologies relating to the integration of optical data streams into computer systems …

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I hope the final Light Peak port isn't that shape

The worst thing about USB is that you can't tell which way up the plugs are. If we go to optical without fixing this, we'll be spending the rest of our lives staring at USB plugs to work out which way up they go. A terrifying thought!

It must be nice being right, even when you're wrong.

Oh wait, that's from the article published yesterday, where you were positive that it was Apple's idea.

Now you're quite sure that it's not:

"So says a mole cited by Cnet, and we're not at all surprised, for a number of reasons."

I'd accept this as simply Rik and Tony disagreeing, except that they've used "The Reg" and the collective "we". A responsible editor simply wouldn't allow that through unless they wanted the writer to put forth the paper's position.

hmmm

Perhaps they mean, they're not suprised now. An hour ago they were, but now that they've had breakfast, it seems completely reasonable (especially now that they know the truth.) Either way, it's a great way to push out articles. "Confirmed! Microsoft releases source code for Windows 7" shortly followed by "Microsoft obviously didn't release source code for Windows 7"